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Azure Alerts and Action Groups

Overview

Azure Alerts and Action Groups provide a comprehensive monitoring and alerting solution for your Azure resources. With Azure Alerts, you can create rules to monitor the health, performance, and availability of your resources. Action Groups allow you to define a set of actions that will be triggered when an alert rule is activated.

Core Functionality

Azure Alerts

  • Alert Rules: Define conditions based on metrics, logs, and activity logs to monitor your resources.
  • Alert Types: Different types of alerts include metric alerts, log alerts, and activity log alerts.
  • Severity Levels: Assign severity levels to alerts to prioritize issues.

Action Groups

  • Notification Methods: Configure multiple notification methods such as email, SMS, push notifications, and voice calls.
  • Automation Runbooks: Trigger automation runbooks to perform predefined tasks in response to alerts.
  • Webhooks: Integrate with external systems and services using webhooks.
  • ITSM Integration: Automatically create incidents in IT service management (ITSM) tools like ServiceNow and Jira.

Mind Map

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